It was shown to me out of heaven that there are distinct faculties of life, one within another, the outermost being that of the body and everything physical. That this outermost faculty is distinct and in itself separate from the inward one, is plain from the life of the human being when the body is separated. The spirit lives when the body has died, which could not possibly happen if it were not a distinct faculty, for it is separable and it is separated. But the spirit is, so to speak, a new containent of the inward faculties, for as I became clearly aware, it is spirits who occupy the inward realm, which is the inward faculty of spirits, and the outward one can be put off and they can thus come into the inward one, and from the inward faculty return into the outward one, as is plain to me from considerably much experience. That there is a yet deeper faculty is proven from the case of angels, who have a yet